Fact check: Quarantine ‘camps’ are real, but COVID-19 camp claim stretches truth

The claim: U.S. military has approved COVID-19 quarantine ‘camps’ that will access personal information and be monitored by militarized CDC police     

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, the Department of Defense’s approval of military facilities for quarantine use was theorized to be much more than a public health effort. 

“A coming digital 5G biometric tracking surveillance CHECKPOINT service that accesses your entire data from financial status, tax history, social credit score, social media ranking, watch history, sexual preference, political views, will be monitored by armed militarized CDC police will determine who is desirable for society and who goes to camp,” an Instagram post by user liftingtheveilofficial claims. 

The post, from early in the pandemic but which remained viral well into late spring, also incorporates copied text from a February Daily Mail UK article that claims the Pentagon has approved “11 quarantine camps on military bases near major airports across the US in anticipation of an influx of American citizens returning from China in need of monitoring for the deadly coronavirus that is now being called COVID-19.”

Liftingtheveiloffical told USA TODAY that his claim was “mostly my own personal sarcastic speculation, and (I’m) being a bit hyperbolic as well.” But, he later asserted his speculations were indeed substantiated and made allusions to Bill Gates, various world organizations and secret societies…read more